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Sundries of a like kind. From Document No. 756 of the House 2d Session, 27th Congress, it appears, that the Com- missioning of Ships, and the increase of officers in the Navy, have been at the discretion of the Executive ; that the expenses of the Navy had been doubled in 10 years ; that naval officers had been multiplied beyond former example, without sufficient cause ; that the number in 1835 was 1, 051 and in 1842 was 1512, when 365, with an aggregate pay of $350, 000, were " absent on leave..., or waiting orders, " that is, doing nothing ; that many had been thus unemployed for ten, twelve, or fourteen years, receiving pav. And being promoted ; that the annual cost of the "coast survey" had risen from $20, 000 in 1832 to $100, 000 in 1840; that the Superintendent of the " Coast Survey" had a salary of $6, 000, one of his Assistants $4, 000, three others $3, 000 each, and three more $2, 000 each; that from 1834 to 1841, seventy-two naval officers, at different times, had been "detailed into the " Coast Survey" service, and while thus occupied, received double paq; that the Revenue Cutter service, being at the discretion of the Executive, rose from an annual- cost of $163, 755 in 1830, to $274, 803 in 1837, while the revenue collected had de- creased about one third ; that the expenses of the Land Office rose in one year from $23, 500 to $108 750 and remained in 1841 at $98, 500, when the land revenue was only $1, 400, 000 ; and that the expenses of the army had risen from $2, 100, 935 in 1829, to $4, 197, 028 in 1841.
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